William H. Crawford

William Harris Crawford (24 February 1772-15 September 1834) was the US Secretary of War from 1 August 1815 to 22 October 1816, succeeding James Monroe and preceding John Calhoun, and Secretary of the Treasury from 22 October 1816 to 6 March 1825, succeeding Alexander Dallas and preceding Richard Rush.

Biography
William Harris Crawford was born in Amherst County, Virginia on 24 February 1772, and his family moved to South Carolina in 1779 and to Georgia in 1783. In 1799, he became a lawyer, and he practiced law in Lexington, Georgia. In 1803, he was elected to the State House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and he was wounded in a duel with his political opponent, John Clark. In 1807, he became the junior Senator from Georgia in Congress, replacing George Jones; he served in this post until 1813. Crawford supported the United States' entry into the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom, and he served as ambassador to France from 1813 to 1815, with William Bulloch succeeding him as Senator. From 1815 to 1816, he served as Secretary of War under President James Madison, but he switched to the Department of the Treasury in 1816. In 1823, he suffered from a stroke, leading to him deciding not to finish his run for president in 1824. He finished in third place behind Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, and he decided not to run in the 1832 election when he found out that Jackson sought a second term. Crawford died two years later.